Well, a day trip with Hong Kongers rather than to Hong Kong. Bit misleading there. I'll try to keep text to a minimum with this post, and fill it up with pictures rather than words as I notice I sometimes type more than is humanly readable. Well, I popped into school on Friday and Nakahara-sensei let me know that I was invited to go on a day out with the Hong Kongese. It ended up being Me, Mikey, some PTA members, afew Junten students and aload of Hong Kongians and it was great fun. We went to Ueno zoo, as you can see in these pictures, which is ace. We didn't have time to go all the way around though, so I definitely intend to go back sometime.
This is a pic of Mikey with two of the Hong Kongos and a big fluffy panda. Ueno zoo was famous for its giant panda not long ago... until it died. I didn't get to see a panda =(
After the zoo, we headed to Akihabara, the wonderful place it is. Me and Mikey went for a wander when everyone was given free time. Afew things which made my day: I played Street Fighter 4. Its only out in arcades at the moment and its class. I clearly haven't lost my SF skill that I gained when I was six, firing off those hadokens and shoryukens like no ones business. Also, there was a PC for £2.50 in one shop. No joke. Two pounds, fifty pence. Didn't tell you the spec, but I'm sure the price speaks for itself in this case, but still, an under three-quid computer!
In Odaiba (my second time here, I came to Odaiba with Nakahara sensei and his family back in our first week at Junten) there's a huge ferris wheel from which you can see a vast distance of Tokyo, theres a beach, theres the Sega Joypolis (a themepark), several shopping centres, an Edo period hot spring theme park and alot more. We did none of this. We went to the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. What a godawful trip for the Hong Kongans. They come to Japan and where does Japan send them? A musem about science. Thats not just a museum, the've doubled - no quadtrupled - the boredom factor by chucking the word science in there. It did make for an interesting trip, but only when I was late to leave and half the people had already left and the others waiting for me. When I finally got to them it turned out Mikey was still in there, and after 30 minutes of tannoy messages and searching we found him. Ok, when I said it was an interesting trip, the interesting bit started after we left the museum, but never mind.
It was quite fun trying to get from Ueno to Akihabara to Odaiba (our next destination) with more than 30 people in a group. JR didn't know what hit them when we turned up. Trying to make sure everyones there, getting on the right train and getting off at the right stop makes for a lot of hassle but its completely made up for by the looks on a few, select, Japanese faces. The only way I can describe their faces is with what I'd expect them to be saying in their heads (and this isnt most Japanese people, just a select few who I saw): "CHINESE PEOPLE? ON MY TRAINS? PREPOSTEROUS! AND THEY BRING WHITE PEOPLE TOO! HAVE THEY NO SHAME?!" This is of course a joke, but there were still some hilarious faces when people realised there was about 40 foreigners filling up an entire carriage of the train.
In Odaiba (my second time here, I came to Odaiba with Nakahara sensei and his family back in our first week at Junten) there's a huge ferris wheel from which you can see a vast distance of Tokyo, theres a beach, theres the Sega Joypolis (a themepark), several shopping centres, an Edo period hot spring theme park and alot more. We did none of this. We went to the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation. What a godawful trip for the Hong Kongans. They come to Japan and where does Japan send them? A musem about science. Thats not just a museum, the've doubled - no quadtrupled - the boredom factor by chucking the word science in there. It did make for an interesting trip, but only when I was late to leave and half the people had already left and the others waiting for me. When I finally got to them it turned out Mikey was still in there, and after 30 minutes of tannoy messages and searching we found him. Ok, when I said it was an interesting trip, the interesting bit started after we left the museum, but never mind.
All in all, a good day, and what makes it best is that Junten are subsidising our travel and food costs (thats right Junten, you pay for my kebab, and you pay for it good).
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